Corkscrew



(No Model.)

-J. KOSSUTH. Corkscrew.

No. 230,877. Patented Aug. 10,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

JOSEPH KOSSUTH, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

CORKSCREW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,877, dated August 10, 1880. Application filed June 19, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KOSSUTH, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain llt useu in rovemen in or screw 5 nev a i f l I t C k s,

of which the following is a description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side view of a corkscrew emr bodying my improvement with the handle represented as cut in central vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a View similar to Fig. 1, but with the parts other than the handle also cut by the same section. Fig. 3 is a 1 top view of the parts other than the handle.

Fig. 4 is a bottom or under-side view of the parts shown in Fig. 3.

The improvement belongs in the class of ratchet-corkscrews; and it consists in novel combinations of parts to attain the ratchet arrangement and to enable the same to be screwed into the handle.

The letter a denotes the handle, preferably of wood, having a circular mortise, b, for the z 5 reception and retention of the exteriorly screwthreaded case 0, the lower end of which case bears the face-ratch d, and the upper end of which bears the mortises e. Theinterior of the case is cup-shaped, and contains therein the 0 sprin g j", which presses, by means of an intermediate washer, g, continually upward on the pinpawl h, (a pin traversing the corkscrew-shaft i diametrically and projecting from the side or sides thereof,) and thus holds the pin-pawl j to 3 5 constant contact with the face-ratch d, so that to pierce the cork; but when the handle a is turned or rotated in the opposite direction the shaft 11 does not turn with the handle, obviating the necessity of a persons loosening his grasp of the handle in driving the worm into a cork.

The described spring arran gemcnt automatically keeps the face-ratch and the pin-pawlj in contact, which I understand to be a new feature of construction and operation in this connection, the practical advantage thereof being that the operator or user does not need to give the handle the vertical motions which would otherwise be requisite to this end.

When the user would withdraw the worm from a cork, he grasps the cork in one hand, and by a backward pull upon the handle with his other hand sinks the pin-pawl it into the mortises e, and the handle a and shaft 41 will then rotate together, for the purpose in hand, in either direction.

The case a is 'exteriorly screw-threaded to furnish a ready, cheap, and efficient means of attaching the worm-shaft to the handle.

I claim as my improvement 1. The combination of the case 0, provided with the face-ratch d and mortises e, the spring if, and the worm-shaft 6, bearing the pin-pawls IL and j, all substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the handle a, the exteriorly screw-threaded case 0, provided with face-ratch d and mortises e, and the worm-shaft 1', bearing the pin-pawls h j, all substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

' JOSEPH KOSSUTH.

Witnesses:

AUGUSTUS G. SMITH, CHARLES H. BARNES. 

